PHIL 2500 Chapter : The Man of Reason.docx
22 Apr 2013
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Man of reason supposed to be neutral, but it linguistically fails to recognize women as human. They are not talking about the idealness of humans, but of manhood. Long history, aristotle- impotent male , inferior rationality from men, better than animals. Augustine-woman is subject to man, man has dominant rationality, woman passive mode of rationality. Many argued the perfection of man included women - both the same species. There was an emphasis on different virtues for women- chastity, education focused on chastity. Debate over dignity of man vs. woman didn"t do much for sexual equality, instead focus on theology and focus on genesis. Man made in god"s image, woman was offsider . That question didn"t matter because her role was to be under males rule. Reason in the 17th tried to encapsulate a systematic method for attaining certainty, All knowledge can be gained access to through these two and anything else is an impediment to knowledge.
